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chunya

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Hello All,

 

This is a very attractive pen in a sort of brown and copper pearlescent finish, but who made it. The imprint reads

 

The 'RUDSON' Pen M.A Rudd & Son Exeter Made in England.

 

I've found one other example of 'The Rudson Pen', where the owner identifies it as a Conway Stewart. The CS book of numbers identifies MA Rudd as being retailers of CS pens who used their own imprint, but is this a CS pen?

 

The nib is a poor Burnham that is obviously a replacement. And it is clipless (sadly one cap band missing).

 

MA Rudd ceased trading in the 1936.

 

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I posted not having seen the words from eachan.

 

have to say I've not heard of the Rudson Pen or MA Rudd, but ………………. I have a Wyvern Perfect No. 81 that has an identically shaped lever - with that arrow pointy end, and coincidentally my Wyvern is exactly the same colour of mottled/marbled effect as yours.

 

I have probably fewer CS pens than most people here, but of my three dozen examples, none has a lever shaped with an arrow design.

 

short answer is I can't really help - sorry - picture of the Wyvern now added.

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Thanks both ... I couldn't see any CS in it, and I imagine that if Rudd managed to get imprintless pens from CS then I imagine they'd have managed to do the same with Wyvern.... and Wyvern does sound a better option to me.

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Your pen is Wyvern made, and would probably have originally held a Warranted 14ct nib sourced from Summit. It would have had a clip, which of course could be sourced.

 

Many companies supplied pens to third parties, including Conway Stewart who sold a large number of model 479 type pens under other names. So I would not be surprised to see such an example marked Rudson.

 

We can see that many such outlets sourced their models from more than one company :

 

Chatsworth = made by both Burnham and DLR

The Selfridge = made by both Burnham and Conway

The Rufford = Made by both Lang and DLR

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I posted not having seen the words from eachan.

 

have to say I've not heard of the Rudson Pen or MA Rudd, but ………………. I have a Wyvern Perfect No. 81 that has an identically shaped lever - with that arrow pointy end, and coincidentally my Wyvern is exactly the same colour of mottled/marbled effect as yours.

 

I have probably fewer CS pens than most people here, but of my three dozen examples, none has a lever shaped with an arrow design.

 

short answer is I can't really help - sorry - picture of the Wyvern now added.

That is a handsom pen Paul ... does it also have a pearlescent finish to it?

 

Your pen is Wyvern made, and would probably have originally held a Warranted 14ct nib sourced from Summit. It would have had a clip, which of course could be sourced.

 

Many companies supplied pens to third parties, including Conway Stewart who sold a large number of model 479 type pens under other names. So I would not be surprised to see such an example marked Rudson.

 

We can see that many such outlets sourced their models from more than one company :

 

Chatsworth = made by both Burnham and DLR

The Selfridge = made by both Burnham and Conway

The Rufford = Made by both Lang and DLR

 

Thanks for the confirmation, Northlodge. I am fairly certain that I've got an old Wyvern cap somewhere and hopefully it'll still have the clip attached. I've certainly got some better nibs and will get round to changing it one day.

 

Good news, found the cap and clip ... bad news its a Wyvern De Luxe, wrong size :mellow:

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